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In the tape played on MSNBC, Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, offers Manigault Newman a job earning $15,000 a month. The job wouldn’t require her to report to any particular office, but enable her to speak positively on Trump’s behalf as part of his re-election campaign.

Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman is declaring she "will not be silenced" by President Donald Trump, remaining defiant as her public feud with her former boss shifts from a war of words to a possible legal battle. (Aug. 14)
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Omarosa Manigault Newman's newest secret recording features Eric Trump's wife Lara, who she says offered her a high-paying campaign job in exchange for her silence.(Photo: EPA/AP)

Omarosa Manigault Newman released more secret tapes Thursday, which she says back up her claim that President Donald Trump sought to pay for her silence, and she promised to release more if Trump continues to "challenge" her.

In an interview with MSNBC, she produced four selected clips of a secretly recorded phone conversation with Eric Trump's wife Lara, who is a top official in his re-election campaign.

In the clips, Lara Trump is heard offering to pay Omarosa $15,000 a month for a "flexible" campaign job in exchange for remaining silent about what she saw during her year working at the White House.

She said it was a sign of the "corruption" in the Trump White House, in his family and in his campaign.

"This is just the beginning of the kind of corruption going on in Trumpland, and I am here to blow the whistle," she said.

This was December 2017, Omarosa had just been fired and already stories were appearing that suggested she might be publicly critical, Lara Trump suggested.

Lara Trump, wife of Eric Trump, at a rally for President Donald Trump in Duluth, Minn., June 20, 2018.(Photo: Craig Lassig/EPA-EFE)

"It sounds a little like, obviously, that there are some things you've got in the back pocket to pull out. Clearly, if you come on board the campaign, like, we can't have, we got to ... ," Lara Trump is heard saying.

At that point, Omarosa is heard saying, "Oh, God, no."

"Everything, everybody, positive, right?" Lara Trump says.

Omarosa said she believes she was being told she could say nothing negative about Trump or any of his family in public.

“She made it very clear that if I joined this campaign, I would have to keep quiet,” Omarosa said. "I saw it as an attempt to buy me off and buy my silence and pay me $15,000 to keep my silence." She said she declined the job.

In response, Lara Trump issued a statement later Thursday calling the latest secret tapes a "fraud," according to The Associated Press. She said she called Omarosa with a job offer because the family cared about her and it was before she knew about the alleged "gross violations of ethics and integrity" that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly cited as justification for her firing.

"Woman to woman, I shared a connection with Omarosa as a friend and a campaign sister, and I am absolutely shocked and saddened by her betrayal and violation on a deeply personal level," the president's daughter-in-law said in her statement.

Meanwhile, the president on Thursday tweeted a Republican Party video compilation of multiple interviews in which Omarosa lavishly praised Trump; MSNBC also ran the same compilation.

"I am not going anywhere, I will not be bullied, I am not intimidated," she said. "I will do whatever I have to do to protect myself."

This latest interview with Omarosa comes as she is continuing her promotional tour for her new tell-all book, "Unhinged," which references this conversation. Details from the book began pouring out even before it was released Tuesday.

The clips she released do not include the entire context of the conversation, but she said she believes they back up what she says in the book.

In the MSNBC interview, she also hinted she has more tapes and she will make them public "when the time comes."

"Every time they challenge me, I will bring out the receipts," she said.

Late Thursday, one of Trump's lawyers, Charles Harder, sent a letter to Omarosa's publisher, Gallery Books and parent company Simon & Schuster, claiming her book is in violation of a campaign non-disclosure agreement that prohibits her from disclosing "confidential" information or saying anything disparaging about Trump or his family. Omarosa has denied she signed any such agreement.

The publisher responded with a return letter pointing out that any such private NDA can't be used to censor a former government official from speaking out about non-classified matters. The publisher said it is "proceeding as planned with publication of (Omarosa's book), confident that we are acting well within our rights and responsibilities as a publisher," said the statement sent to USA TODAY.

In a curious detail from her book, Omarosa also discussed in the MSNBC interview her claim that Trump ordered a tanning bed set up in the White House, which he uses every day. She charged that Trump fired chief White House usher Angella Reid – the first woman and second African-American to hold the position – because he was unhappy about how she handled the transportation of the tanning bed to the White House.

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Omarosa Manigault-Newman, 44, former White House Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison, left her White House job this week under disputed circumstances. She says she was not escorted from the premises after a difficult discussion with Chief of Staff John Kelly. Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images

TV personality and former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman discusses her time in the White House and secret tapes she's released on "Today," Aug. 13, 2018, in New York. Manigault Newman was promoting her book "Unhinged." Zach Pagano/AP

The former reality TV personality was a contestant on Donald Trump's show 'The Apprentice' in 2004. On April 28, 2018, she arrived to the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, DC with her husband, Pastor John Allen Newman. The two wed in 2017 at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

The White House announced Manigault-Newman's resignation from her position as director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison would be effective Jan. 20, 2018. In this photograph, she listens during the daily press briefing at the White House on Oct. 27, 2017. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

When Chief of Staff John Kelly took the helm in the White House, Manigault-Newman's ability to reach the President directly was greatly curtailed. Part of her role was to be a liaison between the White House and the black community. Mark Wilson, Getty Images

President Donald Trump (R) is joined by Vice President Mike Pence, White House Director of Communications for the Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs Omarosa Manigault (L) and other staff members during a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus Executive Committee at the White House. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump asked African Americans to support him, saying, "You're living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed -- what the hell do you have to lose?" Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images

Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway left, and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison Omarosa Manigault, 2nd left, and White House communications director Mike Dubke, right, listen as a reporter asks a question during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House. Shawn Thew, EPA

Omarosa Manigault, speaks with reporters during the Cocktails and Convention reception hosted by the Black Republican Caucus of Florida, in Cleveland, OH. She does not enjoy great support in the black community. Jarrad Henderson, USA TODAY NETWORK

While the dramatic in-your-face competitor was eventually fired in Donald Trump's reality show, the two hit it off and she has remained extremely loyal to Trump. Omarosa speaks to the media to show her support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after he wins the New York Primary at Trump Towers in Manhattan on April 19, 2016. Carucha L. Meuse, The Journal News

Omarosa makes an entrance on the red carpet for the Emmy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. She made such an impact on Trump's show she's famous enough to go by her first name only. Dan MacMedan, USA TODAY

You've made it when you become a character on 'Saturday Night Live.' Fired 'Apprentice' candidate Omarosa, portrayed by Maya Rudolph, is repeatedly struck in the head by falling objects (culminating in a sidewalk garbage can) when she visits Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" with Tina Fey (left) and Jimmy Fallon (right). Mary Ellen Matthews, NBC